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Editor's Notes

Setting aside a few minutes to read about how tech is shaping cities this weekend?

 

Consider this for the queue: For the latest in our yearlong series on Pittsburgh's innovation and jobs landscape, I wrote about the Western Pennsylvania city's decades of advances in AI and robotics innovation, as well as one more recent outgrowth: attracting the household tech names like Google, Uber, Facebook and, most recently, Zoom. They're opening engineering offices in the city to be close to Carnegie Mellon University. As it continues to build, it's clear there can't be a single source of talent for the tech economy to reach the next level of employment gains.

 

Read the whole piece here. There might be a few learnings for Baltimore.

 

—Stephen Babcock, assistant editor, Technical.ly (stephen@technical.ly)

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